designIT is a boutique web development firm specializing in content management systems. We are looking for a keen designer with strong CSS skills to design and style sites for a wide range of clients. In return for the following requirements we provide a positive environment where you will be supported, get to have you say and be able to grow with the business.

You will:

be expected to present your site designs to clients and work with them to arrive at a design that works for the user, and the client's business goals.

be able to produce CSS/ HTML/xHTML templates from your Photoshop mockups.

be able to produce code that works on a variety of browsers such as IE, Safari & Firefox.

have experience in coding with web standards & are aware of accessibility & useability issues when creating sites.

have a minimum of 3 years experience, working on a variety of projects with strong communication skills and with a strong eye for detail and good design.

Ideally you will also have experience working with content management systems.

Flash, JavaScript & php knowledge would be a bonus ­ but we want someone who is primarily skilled in Photoshop/CSS/HTML

You should be able to demonstrate having worked on a variety of projects, highlighting your skills and how you contributed to their success.

This position is based in Melbourne, Australia and available from 19th June 2006.Salary is $40,000 to $50,000 (AUD) commensurate with experience.

In the preface to the current Admin interface specification the last paragraph caught my eye:A overview of user task need a dashboard, where she can follow here own content, approval and other tasks she might do on a regular basis.I recently saw a demo of the latest version of the bug tracking system JIRA 4.0 by Atlassian. It used an OpenSocial dashboard to allow users to customise their homepage to access and interact with information that was important to them. The system not only displays JIRA widgets but any OpenSocial widgets (and those from other Atlassian products). You can check out a video of it in action here and more information on how Atlassian is using OpenSocial here.

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The following presentation was given on 24 July 2012 to the DevOps Brisbane group. Some of the technical detail about Vagrant is outdated but I think it provides a good overview of why moving to a "Infrastructure as code" setup makes a lot of sense.